Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research

Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research is a research topic within Urology. Science Explorer counts 45k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the standardization of terminology, diagnosis, and treatment of lower urinary tract function, with a specific emphasis on conditions such as lower urinary tract symptoms, benign prostatic hyperplasia, overactive bladder, and urinary incontinence. It also explores urodynamic practices, neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction, detrusor overactivity, bladder outlet obstruction, and interstitial cystitis.

Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms
Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Overactive Bladder
Urinary Incontinence
Urodynamic Practices
Neurogenic Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction
Detrusor Overactivity
Bladder Outlet Obstruction
Interstitial Cystitis
Prostate Inflammation

Research works: 45k
In the world top 10%: 4.5k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +10%
Largest producer: United States

Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research

This ranks research output and citation impact. It says nothing about the quality of diagnosis, treatment or care.

Which countries lead Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.6k and 1.1k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.6k works
2 China 1.1k works
3 Italy 407 works
4 United Kingdom 362 works
5 Türkiye 356 works
6 Japan 342 works
7 India 328 works
8 Germany 306 works
9 France 234 works
10 Russia 190 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States1,620 · 30.9%China1,098 · 20.9%Italy407 · 7.8%United Kingdom362 · 6.9%6 others listed1,757 · 33.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Sichuan University publishes the most Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research, followed by Capital Medical University and Sorbonne Université.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Sichuan UniversityChina 48 works
2 Capital Medical UniversityChina 39 works
3 Sorbonne UniversitéFrance 38 works
4 Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina 37 works
5 Harvard UniversityUnited States 37 works
6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 35 works
7 Cleveland ClinicUnited States 34 works
8 University of MichiganUnited States 32 works
9 University of PittsburghUnited States 31 works
10 University of TorontoCanada 30 works

Who are the leading researchers in Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research include David Moher, Walter Churchill Willett and John J.V. McMurray.

1 David Moher Canada 898k citations
2 Walter Churchill Willett United States 411k citations
3 John J.V. McMurray United Kingdom 349k citations
4 Hermann Brenner Germany 343k citations
5 Giuseppe Remuzzi Italy 328k citations
6 Gordon Henry Guyatt Canada 315k citations
7 Salim Yusuf Canada 294k citations
8 Peter Christian Gøtzsche Denmark 292k citations
9 Luigi Ferrucci United States 281k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research?

The most cited paper in Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research is "The standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract function: Report from the standardisation sub‐committee of the International Continence Society" (Paul Abrams, Linda Cardozo, Magnus Fall et al., 2002), with 8,330 citations. Next come "The international index of erectile function (IIEF): a multidimensional scale for assessment of erectile dysfunction" (5,912) and "Docetaxel plus Prednisone or Mitoxantrone plus Prednisone for Advanced Prostate Cancer" (5,779).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	The standardisation of terminology of lower urinary tract function: Report from the standardisation sub‐committee of the International Continence Society Paul Abrams, Linda Cardozo, Magnus Fall et al. · Neurourology and Urodynamics	8 Feb 2002	8,330
2	The international index of erectile function (IIEF): a multidimensional scale for assessment of erectile dysfunction Raymond C. Rosen, Alan J. Riley, Gorm Wagner et al. · Urology	Jun 1997	5,912
3	Docetaxel plus Prednisone or Mitoxantrone plus Prednisone for Advanced Prostate Cancer Ian F. Tannock, Ronald de Wit, William R. Berry et al. · New England Journal of Medicine	6 Oct 2004	5,779
4	Biochemical Outcome After Radical Prostatectomy, External Beam Radiation Therapy, or Interstitial Radiation Therapy for Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer Anthony Victor D'Amico · JAMA	16 Sep 1998	4,551
5	Efficacy and Safety of Tadalafil Monotherapy for Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms Secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia: A Meta-Analysis Yang Dong, Lin Hao, Zhenduo Shi et al. · Urologia Internationalis Review	2013	4,545

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Where is Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research done?

The largest centres of Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Istanbul (Türkiye) and Seoul (South Korea). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Hualien City.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 138 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 124 works
3 IstanbulTürkiye 110 works
4 SeoulSouth Korea 99 works
5 RomeItaly 96 works
6 ParisFrance 85 works
7 ShanghaiChina 84 works
8 MoscowRussia 84 works
9 New YorkUnited States 72 works
10 ChengduChina 68 works

Where it is the local speciality

Hualien CityTW · 43.8 works45×

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Where is the best place to study Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research?

Among universities, judged by research, Tzu Chi University, Anhui Medical University and Sichuan University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Tzu Chi UniversityTaiwan	82.4	23.6%	93.3×	29	+53.5%
2	Anhui Medical UniversityChina	78.2	25.3%	7.9×	25	+53.4%
3	Sichuan UniversityChina	76.0	17.0%	3.1×	48	+39.4%
4	University of MichiganUnited States	73.0	20.6%	3.1×	32	+1.8%
5	University of FlorenceItaly	70.4	16.5%	5.4×	22	+46.1%
6	Sorbonne UniversitéFrance	69.6	10.3%	8.2×	38	+27.7%
7	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	69.2	14.3%	3.2×	35	+3.4%
8	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	67.5	13.8%	4.4×	25	+35.9%
9	Vita-Salute San Raffaele UniversityItaly	66.2	21.5%	12.5×	11	+75.1%
10	Sun Yat-sen UniversityChina	64.9	20.7%	1.8×	25	+32.3%
11	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	64.6	12.0%	2.2×	23	+19.8%
12	University of California, San FranciscoUnited States	64.4	13.4%	4.0×	19	+22.5%
13	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	64.2	13.6%	6.0×	16	+35.9%
14	Harvard UniversityUnited States	64.0	14.5%	1.7×	37	-23.7%
15	University of MiamiUnited States	63.6	14.4%	5.9×	25	+6.0%
16	Capital Medical UniversityChina	63.5	12.8%	5.3×	39	+23.6%
17	Wuhan UniversityChina	63.1	23.2%	1.6×	16	+89.4%
18	University of Naples Federico IIItaly	63.1	24.1%	2.4×	12	+23.5%
19	Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyChina	60.5	20.4%	1.6×	20	+58.7%
20	Sapienza University of RomeItaly	60.3	15.4%	2.7×	22	+56.0%
21	University of TorontoCanada	60.2	15.4%	2.2×	30	-9.7%
22	University of PittsburghUnited States	59.1	8.2%	5.7×	31	-13.8%
23	University of AntwerpBelgium	58.8	12.9%	6.5×	15	+87.7%
24	University of OsloNorway	57.9	23.7%	1.9×	8	+47.6%
25	Case Western Reserve UniversityUnited States	57.8	8.0%	6.1×	25	+65.6%
26	Stanford UniversityUnited States	57.5	15.8%	2.1×	22	-0.5%
27	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	57.3	7.6%	2.5×	20	+22.3%
28	Vanderbilt UniversityUnited States	56.6	15.3%	4.0×	20	+15.6%
29	Medical University of ViennaAustria	56.2	15.9%	5.5×	12	+28.2%
30	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States	56.2	20.1%	2.4×	12	-6.7%
31	Peking UniversityChina	55.8	12.5%	1.9×	27	+39.0%
32	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany	55.0	13.7%	3.9×	23	-8.9%
33	University of Rome Tor VergataItaly	53.9	11.6%	6.3×	14	+147.8%
34	University of RochesterUnited States	53.3	11.7%	5.1×	16	+144.0%
35	Cornell UniversityUnited States	53.0	16.8%	2.7×	24	-22.9%
36	Duke UniversityUnited States	53.0	18.4%	2.4×	13	+4.5%
37	University of CopenhagenDenmark	52.9	11.8%	2.4×	16	+54.0%
38	Southern Medical UniversityChina	52.9	16.2%	3.6×	15	+85.6%
39	University of GothenburgSweden	52.8	12.7%	2.9×	10	+20.7%
40	Tufts UniversityUnited States	52.7	13.2%	3.1×	10	+43.5%
41	Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityChina	51.7	9.9%	1.9×	37	+0.8%
42	Kaohsiung Medical UniversityTaiwan	50.5	17.6%	11.4×	11	+5.2%
43	Imperial College LondonUnited Kingdom	50.5	15.6%	1.6×	11	+8.1%
44	University of FreiburgGermany	48.9	24.2%	3.3×	10	-30.0%
45	Sağlık Bilimleri ÜniversitesiTürkiye	47.8	1.9%	7.8×	29	+23.0%
46	University of BernSwitzerland	47.7	9.3%	3.0×	11	+22.1%
47	University of BaselSwitzerland	47.0	12.9%	3.2×	8	+190.0%
48	Oakland UniversityUnited States	45.8	9.7%	9.3×	9	+29.4%
49	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	45.7	15.7%	1.9×	10	+7.9%
50	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	43.4	13.6%	2.8×	11	-10.3%
51	Bond UniversityAustralia	36.4	7.9%	20.0×	9	+5.0%
52	Ghent UniversityBelgium	35.5	11.0%	2.0×	10	-28.1%
53	Kōchi UniversityJapan	34.4	5.3%	23.2×	9	+16.3%
54	University of ZurichSwitzerland	33.9	13.1%	1.9×	9	-33.3%
55	Nara Medical UniversityJapan	25.9	4.8%	17.3×	8	+15.3%
56	First Pavlov State Medical University of St. PetersburgRussia	24.9	0.2%	21.5×	10	+23.7%
57	Toho UniversityJapan	22.8	3.1%	15.4×	10	-23.3%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research, country by country

Is Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 10% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.032% in 2024.

Fractional works of Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

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Which countries lead Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research?

What are the most cited papers in Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research?

Where is Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research?

Is Urinary Bladder and Prostate Research research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

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